# membro
## Esperanto
### Etymology

Ultimately from Latin membrum.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmembro]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -embro
* Hyphenation: mem‧bro

### Noun

membro (accusative singular membron, plural membroj, accusative plural membrojn)
* member
* (anatomy) limb

#### Derived terms

* membraro
* membreco

## Galician
### Alternative forms

* nembro

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese nembro, borrowed from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”). Doublet of nembro (“jamb”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɛ̃mbɾʊ]
* Hyphenation: mem‧bro

### Noun

membro m (plural membros)
* extremity
* member

### References

* Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “membro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “nenbro”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “membro”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “membro”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
* Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “membro”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmem.bro/, (traditional) /ˈmɛm.bro/
* Rhymes: -embro, (traditional) -ɛmbro
* Hyphenation: mém‧bro, (traditional) mèm‧bro

### Etymology 1

From Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

#### Noun

membro m (plural (in most meanings) membri m or (referring to limbs) membra f)
* member (one who belongs to a group; an element of a set)
* penis
    Synonym: pene
* (anatomy, usually in the plural) member, limb
    Synonym: arto
* (anatomy) arm
    Synonym: braccio

##### Usage notes

* The feminine plural membra is only used for the anatomical sense of “limbs”.

##### Related terms

* membrana
* membro del parlamento
* stato membro

#### Further reading

* membro in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

membro
* first-person singular present indicative of membrare

#### References

* ↑ membro in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

## Latin
### Noun

membrō
* dative/ablative singular of membrum

### References

* “membro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* membro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese membro (displacing nembro), from Latin membrum (“member; limb”), from Proto-Indo-European *memso-, *mems-ro (“flesh”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmẽ.bɾu/
* Hyphenation: mem‧bro

### Noun

membro m or f by sense (plural membros, feminine membra, feminine plural membras)
* member (one who officially belongs to a group)
    Synonym: participante
* member; limb
    Hyponyms: braço, membro inferior, membro superior, perna
* each part of a whole
    Synonyms: elemento, parte, pedaço
* (colloquial) member; penis
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:pénis
* (grammar) each element of a sentence
    Holonyms: frase, oração, periodo, sentença

#### Usage notes

This word can take both masculine and feminine articles: um membro, uma membro; the word membra can also be used for the feminine form.

#### Derived terms

* membro fantasma
* membro inferior
* membro superior
* membro viril

#### Related terms

* desmembrado
* desmembrar
* membrana
* membrudo